Interior Inspiration: Rose Uniacke's London home

If you’ve been watching my Instagram Stories, you’ll have seen that I’ve been asking you what kind of content you’d like to see on my site. Unsurprisingly interiors, homeware, vintage items and interior tours cropped up repeatedly. I have been photographing and writing about homes and interiors in Paris and beyond for for the past few years (I hope to publish a coffee table book one day, but in the interim you can explore them here) - sadly the last couple of years (for obvious reasons) have made it a little more difficult, but I’m currently working on an exciting business project that will hopefully enable me be able to bring them back! Watch this space. In the meantime I wanted to start sharing some of my personal interior inspiration, which I’ve been meaning to do for a while, along with product ideas that will help you achieve a similar look at the end of each tour! So I’m launching another new series this week showcasing interiors that speak to me and give me the kind of tingly feels where I can’t stop thinking about them and immediately save them to my moodboards for later!

It seems fitting to begin with the current doyenne of British interior design and celebrity favourite, Rose Uniacke (don’t worry, I will be featuring French and Parisian homes in the future too!), as I continuously refer back to her creations. Plus she recently published a (sadly limited edition and now sold out) tome with Rizzoli Books, called Rose: Uniacke at Home that’s filled with beautiful photography of her work captured by the French photographer François Halard.

Uniacke manages to marry theatre with understated elegance, along with French and Italian references, antiques, dramatic period architecture, contemporary elements and often rich colours, with such effortlessness and feeling that I literally gasp in awe whenever I see a new space that she has designed. It’s no wonder that she she was commissioned to work on the homes belonging to the likes of Victoria Beckham and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, as well as the headquarters for Jo Malone in London that I was lucky enough to visit for an event a few years ago.

Uniacke began her career as an antiques dealer which explains her ease in incorporating unique historical pieces into the spaces she’s put her stamp on - an aesthetic that in her home, for example Rose describes as “monastery meets Venetian palazzo.” It’s a feast for the eyes and has me immediately wanting to head back to Venice just so I can soak up more of her inspiration.